The Making of a World Trading Power

Following its foundation in 1957, the European Economic Community set about establishing itself as a major player on the world stage. One of the first key arenas in which the new organisation began to make its presence felt was the GATT negotiations that took place between 1957 and 1972, known as the Kennedy Round. Through a reconstruction of these on-going negotiations, this book charts the emergence of the EEC as a world trading power and the strategies it adopted that were to have a lasting effect upon European trade policies.

Lucia Coppolaro is post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. Her research interests focus on the economic and political history of contemporary Europe, the history of international relations since 1945 and the history and political economics of international trade. She has written widely on GATT and European Union history and has published articles in International History Review and Journal of European Integration History.